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Re: seagate disk problems on SPARC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Burley)
Wed Apr 7 06:26:45 1999
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:38:14 +0100
From: Simon Burley <sjb@dneg.com>
To: Dave Addison <dave@phaedra1.demon.co.uk>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Dave Addison wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've just bought a second hand Seagate SCSI disk to use with my SPARC
> IPC. I've been installing RedHat 5.1. The install works fine, but
> rebooting off the installed OS generates the following:
>
<snip>
> Trying to mount the CDROM after login generates more of the same.
> Eventually the CDROM mounts OK and I can use it. Trying to use a second
> hard disk in the system causes it to lock up completely during boot. Can
> anyone suggest a possible cause for the error messages? Or what the
> installed kernel is doing that the boot disk image doesn't? If it is
> doing something different how can I stop it? (I've already tried
> patching the SCSI code to stop it scanning unused luns. Either I did it
> wrong or it makes no difference) Is it significant that the number of
> sectors in the last message is more than
> the disk data sheet says exists on the disk?
>
> Answers to any of the above would be appreciated. I've been trying to
> get this going for three weeks. with about six different disk labels. I
> can't find anything which will eliminate these messages. I have to admit
> I'm totally out of my depth :-(
I have _exactly_ the same problem. I was working with the SPARC mailing
list just a couple of weeks ago to work around this.
I don't think adding another disk causes a total system lock up on boot,
however. It just takes a very long time.
The CDROM thing is interesting. I still havn't got to the bottom of it,
but which cdrom are you using? I'm going to try a different one, and
blacklisting mine in the kernel.
Please keep me in touch with what you find - and I'll be working on this
one again tonight.
S.
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